My impression is that there are a few core ideas which get turned into frameworks by different people every few years because rediscovery + the generative effect are more fun/epiphany inducing than reviewing the entire literature.
WRT predictions: systems theory is about modelling, and modelling is always making implicit predictions about the causal structure of the system. The better ‘systems theory frameworks’ encourage turning these into explicit predictions/tests.
My impression is that there are a few core ideas which get turned into frameworks by different people every few years because rediscovery + the generative effect are more fun/epiphany inducing than reviewing the entire literature.
WRT predictions: systems theory is about modelling, and modelling is always making implicit predictions about the causal structure of the system. The better ‘systems theory frameworks’ encourage turning these into explicit predictions/tests.